[#MDL-20050] Forgotten your (username or) password should be a link

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Key:	MDL-20050
Type:	Sub-task
Status:	Resolved
Resolution:	Fixed
Priority:	Minor
Assignee:	Tim Hunt
Reporter:	Olli Savolainen
Votes:	0
Watchers:	0

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MDL-20049

Forgotten your (username or) password should be a link

Created: 12/Aug/09 08:44 PM Updated: 02/Sep/09 10:31 PM

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Component/s:

Authentication, Usability

Affects Version/s:

2.0

Fix Version/s:

2.0

File Attachments:

loginformpatch2009-08-12.txt (1 kB)

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This issue is blocked by:

~~MDL-19586~~ Create UI Guidelines to aid in Moodle development

Participants:	Olli Savolainen and Tim Hunt
Security Level:	None
Resolved date:	26/Aug/09
Affected Branches:	MOODLE_20_STABLE
Fixed Branches:	MOODLE_20_STABLE

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Not only is the element clearly navigation, but the convention in all major web services is that this functionality is presented as a link in the login form, even though there is some variation about what exactly the label text is.

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Olli Savolainen added a comment - 12/Aug/09 08:58 PM

An exceedingly simple fix to this. Not sure if the div containing the link should be centered instead.

The usability of this is likely degraded, of course, since contrary to general recommendation, in Moodle links do not have an underlining even if they are not in menus.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040510.html (always a pleasure to refer to Nielsen)

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Olli Savolainen added a comment - 13/Aug/09 03:54 PM

An additional issue this fix solves is the fact that the submit button that took the user to password recovery broke the browser's back button - if the user tried to return to (or through) the password recovery form later, they would get stuck on the recovery form page: since that was delivered as a response to POST, the browser would ask them if they wanted to resubmit the data (which there was none actually since the POST was empty).

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Olli Savolainen added a comment - 15/Aug/09 09:30 PM - edited

Could not add participants (since it is a subtask?) so assigned to you, Tim.

The usability testing with 8 participants seems to show that users find this link quite a bit quicker than the button, since this is the conventional place on the web. (I still need to confirm this though.) And yet, the form is a lot less cluttered. cheers

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Tim Hunt added a comment - 26/Aug/09 03:46 AM

FIx committed. Thanks Olli.

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Olli Savolainen added a comment - 02/Sep/09 10:31 PM

For future reference, listing here the approximate performances each test subject, in the usability tests ( http://www.pilpi.net/software/moodle/2009/08/19/quickie-usability-testing-file-upload-and-forgotten-password/ ).

Subjects got either the old or the new UI, and due to a mistake the old UI got presented more than the new one.

old UI:
I 0sec (found/used element before hearing the task)
II 18sec
III 10sec
IV 5sec
V >60sec (user did not notice the functionality at all but logged in as guest)

new UI:
I 0sec
II 10sec
III 0sec

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